The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

The educational mismatch hypothesis asserts that students are hurt by affirmative action policies that place them in …, which admit students using neighborhood-based diversity criteria as well as test scores. Regression discontinuity estimates … for applicants favored by affirmative action indeed show no gains in reading and negative effects of exam school …

sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs … for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality … distribution increases the high school graduation probability and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17 …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, we do not find impacts of either …

from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high-school … graduation, college-going, and school-based arrests. These patterns are driven by the least advantaged students benefiting the …We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test …

school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I …-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

panel data on school enrollment from a comprehensive school-level administrative dataset. This is merged with detailed data … on Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) center location and founding dates. Using school fixed effects, we … estimate the impact of introducing a new ITES center in the vicinity of the school on enrollment. We find that introducing a …